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· 8/14/1991

Bennett v. Commissioner of Food & Agriculture

Citations

  • 576 N.E.2d 1365
  • 411 Mass. 1

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • enforcing agricultural preservation restriction against landowner because restriction reinforced legislatively stated public purpose of the conservation statute, G. L. c. 184, § 31
  • enforcing servitude in the absence of dominant estate where enforcement consistent with public policy and reasonable
  • APR prior approval provision enforceable, even if the condition of approval did not fall within the statutory definition of APR, because it was consistent with the public policy expressed in the Massachusetts APR statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, O'Connor, Greaney

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